Bonjour quelqu'un peut me traduire ça en Français SVP :) In my opinion, I think that Theodore, the narrator, was lucid dreaming all along and he subconsciously gathered enough real information from the chateau to create the events that seemed unreal . In the beginning of the story, the narrator and his friends, Arrigo Cohic and Pedrino Borgnioli, traveled to Normandy in harsh stormy weather and they were all very tired. The narrator seemed very exhausted from the trip and so he went to his room. The chateau and his room made an impression on his mind because he was amazed by how strange the rooms were decorated. The room had a lot of paintings and they were ancestors from the host.